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TALK | Slipping off or Turning the Tide? Gender Equality in European Union's External Relations in Times of Crisis

When	Thursday, Feb 16, 2023, 12 – 1 p.m.
Event interval	Single day event
Online Meeting Link	events.uw.edu…
Event Types	Academics, Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors	REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. This lecture series is organized by the UW Center for West European Studies and the EU Jean Monnet Center of Excellence with support from the Lee and Stuart Scheingold European Studies Fund, the EU Erasmus+ Program, the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, and the Center for Global Studies. Jean Monnet Chair Professor Sabine Lang is the series coordinator.

Description	TALKING GENDER IN THE EU is a 3-part lecture series covering gender politics in Slovenia, the European Union and Poland. Slipping off or Turning the Tide? Gender Equality in European Union's External Relations in Times of Crisis - Dr. Natalie Welfens, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Hertie School Berlin, Centre for Fundamental Rights The European Union has faced and continues to face several crises, including the financial crisis, Brexit, a migration and climate crisis, and lately the COVID-19 pandemic as well as Russia’s war against Ukraine and its consequences. At the same time, the EU has promised to mainstream gender in all external policies, and understands itself to be a normative power and gender actor in world politics. Does the EU live up to this normative commitment in times of multiple external crises? Can crises even offer a window of opportunity for gender considerations, as some feminist work suggests? In this talk Natalie Welfens analyzes how the European Union’s identification of crisis and policy responses to crisis in different external policy fields are gendered and have gendered effects.